Alan Hoffman

On the other hand: Pat and Alan Hoffman of Hoffman Estates wanted their house to be just right. So for the last 20 years, the Hoffmans have set out to make it left-handed--just like them. First, they tackled the appliances, purchasing a microwave and refrigerator with doors opening the opposite direction. They have a left-handed calculator and left-handed scissors and knitting instructions. Their lamps sit to the left of the sofa. They use wireless telephones to...

McHenry police were weighing whether to charge an 11-year-old girl with disorderly conduct after she allegedly brought a toy gun to McHenry Middle School, authorities said Wednesday. The 6th-grader brought a "laser shock novelty toy gun" to class at about 9 a.m. Tuesday and it was passed around among several students, said McHenry School District 15 Supt. Alan Hoffman. The toy was about 4 inches long, equipped with a laser and emitted a small shock when...

The Cary Park Board on Thursday night unanimously passed an ordinance to condemn 254 acres of farmland that would be used for a park if a referendum proposal passes Tuesday. The Park District has been negotiating with property owner Alan Hoffman to purchase the 254 acres southwest of several Cary subdivisions, where many residents want to head off a proposed gravel pit if the land is annexed by neighboring Lake in the Hills. Hoffman donated a strip of land around...

Buoyed by a Cary Park District agreement last week to buy nearly all of the Hoffman farm for $11.5 million, elated residents and park commissioners met over the weekend on the property east of Illinois Highway 31. There officials revealed the name will be the Morris and Marie Hoffman Park, the possible site of large-scale recreational projects that could include a golf course and water park. A group called Citizens for Better Communities--whose members are mostly...

About 70 Cary residents jammed the Cary Village Board room recently to demand that the Village Board do what it can to block a move by developer Alan Hoffman to have his property annexed by Lake in the Hills so he can build more homes and possibly mine gravel. Residents said they were concerned about the large number of gravel trucks used in mining gravel, as well as increased traffic and overcrowding of Cary schools should additional homes be built. The 260-acre Hoffman Farm is east...

A McHenry County appraiser doesn't have to turn over his records to the owner of a 260-acre farm at the center of a development dispute involving Lake in the Hills and Cary, a judge has ruled. Alan Hoffman, who heads the family trust that owns the property, had wanted Woodstock-based appraiser Frank Harrison to turn over five years' paperwork in what is shaping up as a battle to determine the value of the farm. Among the documents, Hoffman had hoped to find evidence he could use in court...

A McHenry County appraiser doesn't have to turn over his records to the owner of a 260-acre farm at the center of a development dispute involving Lake in the Hills and Cary, a judge has ruled. Alan Hoffman, who heads the family trust that owns the property, had wanted Woodstock-based appraiser Frank Harrison to turn over five years' paperwork in what is shaping up as a battle to determine the value of the farm. Among the documents, Hoffman had hoped to find evidence he could use in court...

A McHenry County appraiser doesn't have to turn over his records to the owner of a 260-acre farm at the center of a development dispute involving Lake in the Hills and Cary, a judge ruled Thursday. Alan Hoffman, who heads the family trust that owns the property, had wanted Woodstock-based appraiser Frank Harrison to turn over five years' paperwork in what is shaping up as a battle to determine the value of the farm. Among the documents, Hoffman had hoped to find evidence he could use in...

A McHenry County appraiser doesn't have to turn over his records to the owner of a 260-acre farm at the center of a development dispute involving Lake in the Hills and Cary, a judge ruled Thursday. Alan Hoffman, who heads the family trust that owns the property, had wanted Woodstock-based appraiser Frank Harrison to turn over five years' paperwork in what is shaping up as a battle to determine the value of the farm. Among the documents, Hoffman had hoped to find evidence he could use in...

The Cary Park Board on Thursday night unanimously passed an ordinance to condemn 254 acres of farmland that would be used for a park if a referendum proposal passes Tuesday. The Park District has been negotiating with property owner Alan Hoffman to purchase the 254 acres southwest of several Cary subdivisions, where many residents want to head off a proposed gravel pit if the land is annexed by neighboring Lake in the Hills. Hoffman donated a strip of land around...

Buoyed by a Cary Park District agreement last week to buy nearly all of the Hoffman farm for $11.5 million, elated residents and park commissioners met over the weekend on the property east of Illinois Highway 31. There officials revealed the name will be the Morris and Marie Hoffman Park, the possible site of large-scale recreational projects that could include a golf course and water park. A group called Citizens for Better Communities--whose members are mostly...

It has all the elements of an ideal plan: a little area for light industry, a patch for commercial structures and a huge lake surrounded by marinas, beaches, bicycle paths and parks. So why are the neighbors complaining about the land-use plan for what is now the Hoffman Farm, next to a residential area of Cary, but newly annexed by Lake in the Hills? "The plan looks real nice," said Don Huffer, Cary's village president, who lives a few blocks from the Hoffman property on Main Street.

McHenry police were weighing whether to charge an 11-year-old girl with disorderly conduct after she allegedly brought a toy gun to McHenry Middle School, authorities said Wednesday. The 6th-grader brought a "laser shock novelty toy gun" to class at about 9 a.m. Tuesday and it was passed around among several students, said McHenry School District 15 Supt. Alan Hoffman. The toy was about 4 inches long, equipped with a laser and emitted a small shock when...

It has all the elements of an ideal plan: a little area for light industry, a patch for commercial and a huge lake surrounded by marinas, beaches, bicycle paths and parks. So why are the neighbors complaining about the land-use plan for what is now the Hoffman Farm, next to a residential area of Cary, but newly annexed by Lake in the Hills? "The plan looks real nice," said Don Huffer, Cary's village president, who lives a few blocks from the Hoffman property on Main Street.

Rebuffed in its offer to buy the 255-acre Hoffman farm, Lake in the Hills filed papers Friday to forcibly annex the property. After filing the documents at the McHenry County Courthouse, Mark Burkland, a lawyer for the village, said the farm is now within the boundaries of Lake in the Hills and zoned for commercial use. The action came a day after the farm's owner, Chicago lawyer Alan Hoffman, rejected Lake in the Hills' final offer for...

Rebuffed in its offer to buy the 255-acre Hoffman farm, Lake in the Hills filed papers Friday to forcibly annex the property. After filing the documents at the McHenry County Courthouse, Mark Burkland, a lawyer for the village, said the farm is now within the boundaries of Lake in the Hills and zoned for commercial use. The action came a day after the farm's owner, Chicago lawyer Alan Hoffman, rejected Lake in the Hills' final offer for...

It has all the elements of an ideal plan: a little area for light industry, a patch for commercial and a huge lake surrounded by marinas, beaches, bicycle paths and parks. So why are the neighbors complaining about the land-use plan for what is now the Hoffman Farm, next to a residential area of Cary, but newly annexed by Lake in the Hills? "The plan looks real nice," said Don Huffer, Cary's village president, who lives a few blocks from the Hoffman property on Main Street.

About 70 Cary residents jammed the Cary Village Board room recently to demand that the Village Board do what it can to block a move by developer Alan Hoffman to have his property annexed by Lake in the Hills so he can build more homes and possibly mine gravel. Residents said they were concerned about the large number of gravel trucks used in mining gravel, as well as increased traffic and overcrowding of Cary schools should additional homes be built. The 260-acre Hoffman Farm is east...

It has all the elements of an ideal plan: a little area for light industry, a patch for commercial structures and a huge lake surrounded by marinas, beaches, bicycle paths and parks. So why are the neighbors complaining about the land-use plan for what is now the Hoffman Farm, next to a residential area of Cary, but newly annexed by Lake in the Hills? "The plan looks real nice," said Don Huffer, Cary's village president, who lives a few blocks from the Hoffman property on Main Street.

On the other hand: Pat and Alan Hoffman of Hoffman Estates wanted their house to be just right. So for the last 20 years, the Hoffmans have set out to make it left-handed--just like them. First, they tackled the appliances, purchasing a microwave and refrigerator with doors opening the opposite direction. They have a left-handed calculator and left-handed scissors and knitting instructions. Their lamps sit to the left of the sofa. They use wireless telephones to...